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The Kerosene Singing (Paperback): Alistair Noon The Kerosene Singing (Paperback)
Alistair Noon
R305 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Occasional and Joke Poems (Paperback): Osip Mandelstam Occasional and Joke Poems (Paperback)
Osip Mandelstam; Translated by Alistair Noon
R461 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R63 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Parallel to his more famous poems about the buildings of St. Petersburg, the shores of the Black Sea, and the streets of Voronezh, Mandelstam wrote many brief, spontaneous poems about his friends, enemies and everyday occurrences over his entire writing life. Though his poetic, political and personal trajectory was to be a lonely one, he in fact had a convivial and gregarious personality, of which these poems are a product. This volume collects them in English for the first time, with an introduction and notes for context. It provides a fresh perspective on this poet whose sense of the past, the present and the future seems second to none.

The Voronezh Workbooks (Paperback): Osip Mandelstam The Voronezh Workbooks (Paperback)
Osip Mandelstam; Translated by Alistair Noon
R577 R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Save R75 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Osip Mandelstam spent three years in internal exile in the city of Voronezh, in south-western Russia, after someone in his circle of acquaintances had informed the Soviet authorities of his “Stalin Epigram” in 1934. The ninety-odd poems he wrote there are the pinnacle of his poetic achievement, bearing witness to Mandelstam’s consistent independence of mind and concern for the freedom of thought. More covertly and controversially, however, they also bear the marks of Mandelstam’s attempts to somehow reinstate himself back into Soviet society. In addition to all the poems that Russian editors have suggested constitute the sequence Mandelstam would have wished to see into print, this edition includes the main variants and exclusions preserved in manuscripts and in the memory of Mandelstam’s wife and executor, Nadezhda. Alistair Noon’s translations of Osip Mandelstam, Concert at a Railway Station: Selected Poems, appeared from Shearsman Books in 2018, with two further volumes, in 2022 – the current volume and Occasional and Joke Poems. His own poetry has appeared in two collections, Earth Records (2012) and The Kerosene Singing (2015), both from Nine Arches Press, and a dozen chapbooks from various presses. He lives in Berlin. Praise for Concert at a Railway Station “To my mind this is the best Mandelstam ‘selected’ yet and belongs on the bookshelves of everyone with an interest in 20th-Century Russian verse.” —Ross Cogan, Poetry Wales “Alistair Noon’s translations of Mandelstam are an important contribution to the study and appreciation of this vital writer.” —Anton Romanenko, B O D Y “Noon daringly replicates Mandelstam’s formal stanzas, using slant rhymes with a zingy freshness of diction that stops the poems from ever sounding like trans-lationese.” —Henry King, Glasgow Review of Books The cover design is based on that for the Soviet Museum Bulletin published in 1930 by the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and designed by artist Boris Ender. Ender also designed the cover for Mandelstam’s children’s book, Two Trams, in 1925.

Concert at a Railway Station - Selected Poems (Paperback): Osip Mandelstam Concert at a Railway Station - Selected Poems (Paperback)
Osip Mandelstam; Translated by Alistair Noon
R519 R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Save R68 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An extensive sampling of the whole of Mandelstam's career from his first collection up to the late poems that were memorised by his wife, when it was too dangerous to have them written down. One of the great poets of the first half of the 20th century, Mandelstam is one of the figures who needs to be translated and re-translated, being too important to be taken for granted.

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